Blasts and Gun Attack in Norway; 7 Dead

OSLO — Powerful explosions shook central Oslo on Friday afternoon, blowing out the windows of several government buildings, including one housing the office of the Norwegian prime minister. The state television broadcaster, citing the police, said 7 people were killed and at least 15 injured; a spokeswoman for the prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, said he was “safe and not hurt.”

Deadly explosions shattered windows on Friday at the government headquarters in Oslo, which includes the prime minister’s office. A spokeswoman for Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said he was safe.

Shortly after the explosions, which appeared to be a bomb attack, a man dressed as a police officer opened fire on a summer camp for young members of the governing Labor Party on the island of Utoya about 25 miles northwest of the city, and wounded at least five, a Norwegian security official said.

“The situation’s gone from bad to worse,” said Runar Kvernen, spokesman for the National Police Directorate under the Ministry of Justice and Police, adding that most of the children at the camp were 15 and 16 years old.

Apparently appeasing Islamic terrorists only incites them to step up their attacks. Who’d have thought that?

A terror group, Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami, or the Helpers of the Global Jihad, issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack, according to Will McCants, a terrorism analyst at C.N.A., a research institute that studies terrorism. The message said the attack was a response to Norwegian forces’ presence in Afghanistan and to unspecified insults to the Prophet Muhammad. “

And as it turns out, they falsely claimed responsibility for this part of the attack.

It runs under the radar of most Americans, but Scandinavia has a large and radical Muslim immigrant population. Steps by the various governments to appease this population have only lead to more aggression.

I have no doubt that Vidkun Quisling would be so proud.

OK, so I was wrong. I went with the odds and it turns out, or so far it seems that way, that this is the outlier that no one can predict. I would say that it’s odd that he copied the same type of tactics (bombs and shootings of innocents) that the Islamofascists use, but it really isn’t that odd since they are effective in garnering media attention. Which it seems this guy wants.

“Fundamntalist Christian”? That remains to be seen. “Right wing nut”? Again, remains to be seen.

Sadly Islamic fundamentalist is still the way to bet in future attacks. Which of course there will be too many more of.

As to the post title, it seems that part of his rage is based on government appeasement of Islam, so ironically the title still fits, even if nothing else does.